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The Daily Dispatch: April 15, 1863., [Electronic resource], Congressional Summary. (search)
Congressional Summary. In the Senate, Tuesday, several unimportant bills were passed. The session was chiefly consumed in the discussion of the bill to confiscate the interest of the American Telegraph Company and other alien enemies in the lines of telegraph in the Confederate States. Mr. Oldham advocated the bill. Messrs. Johnson, of Ark, and Johnson, of Ga, opposed it. The further consideration of the bill was postponed until to-day. In the House the greater part of the morning session was spent in discussing the resolutions reported from the Judiciary Committee in relation to martial law and the suspension of the writ of habeas carpus. The resolutions were introduced at the first session of the present Congress, and have been on the calendar of the House since that time. They were passed. These resolutions affirm, 1st. That martial law, in the sense of the arbitrary suspension of civil jurisdiction, cannot exist in the Confederate States. 2d That if it can exist in